A shiver ran down Oliver’s spine. The picture his nephew, Finn, had created was impossible. There, in all its glory, was Archibald. The grumpy, yet lovable, dragon that lived in the depths of his imagination. He could practically hear Archibald's low rumble of a voice. He felt a coldness spread through his chest.

His breathing became shallow. He had to resist the urge to drop the artwork. Oliver could only stare at the drawing, his mind struggling to comprehend what he was seeing. He rubbed his eyes, thinking he must be hallucinating. But the image was unwavering. He couldn’t look away.

Emotion: dumbstruck

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -1.99 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.71

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion dumbstruck. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 dumbstruck stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the dumbstruck emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the dumbstruck vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254